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As the United States continues to play its role as a leader of the global community, there is one area in which the nation falls far behind its progressive counterparts: paid sick and family leave. Paid sick and family leave is the idea that working men and women should have the ability to earn paid time away from work to care for a new child, ill family member, or themselves, while protecting against discrimination or retaliation for needing or taking leave.

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According to the NAACP, the United States makes up only 5% of the world’s population but holds 25% of the world’s prison population. Four times more prisoners are incarcerated in the U.S. today than in 1980 due to the War on Drugs. [1]

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While the White House has decided to continue Obamacare payments, Trump has cut contraception regulations that protect women’s rights to health coverage. The labor market continues to tighten, however manufacturing in Philadelphia has declined slightly.

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The Presidential Executive Order on Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth, signed on March 28, 2017 by President Trump at EPA headquarters, dramatically changes the U.S. energy sector’s regulatory landscape.

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Imagine a manufacturer of widgets, let’s call them Widget Corporation, which commands a forty percent share of the widget supply market. After assessing the market, Widget Corporation decides to acquire its closest competitor, Widgets-R-Us, which represents thirty-five percent of the market. Post-acquisition, the combined company would have a seventy-five percent share of the widget supply market. An acquisition which results in such a high market-share concentration would likely raise red flags to U.S. government antitrust enforcement agencies, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, as it may substantially lessen competition in the widget market.